Vincenzo Lombardo

Vincenzo Lombardo PhD, born in 1964, is an Associate Professor of Informatics, at the University of Turin, Italy (Department of Informatics).
He doctorated in Computer Science in the Turin-Milan University Consortium (1993). 
He is the President of CIRMA (Interdepartmental Centre for Research on Multimedia and Audiovideo). 
He is a member of the Scientific Board of international PhD programme Technology for Culture. 
At public company Virtual Reality & Multi Media Park, he has run the Art-Science Alliance Laboratory (ASA Lab) from 2004 to 2012 and the personal account, as a multimedia designer and producer. 
He has been the director of the EU-funded project VEP (Virtual Electronic Poem), of the national project DramaTour, of the project CADMOS (Character-centred Annotation of Dramatic Media ObjectS). 
His research concerns methodologies, models and applications of informatics, and AI in particular, for interdisciplinary challenges, such as semantic annotation and visualization for heritage metadata, multimedia design, natural language processing, and cognitive modeling. 
His papers are published in international journals, books, conference proceedings. 
He is also active as a multimedia designer and producer.